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With two original pen and ink drawings signed by Hans Erni
ERNI, Hans. SOPHOCLES.
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Antigone.
Lausanne
Andre Gonin
1949
Hans Erni was an important Swiss artist well known for his posters, murals, designs for stamps, ceramics and theatre sets as well as his elegant…
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Chromolithographic plates
HILL, W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E.
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Antonio Stradivari, His Life and Work (1644-1737).
London
William E. Hill & Sons, Violin Makers, New Bond St.
1902
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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Apparition.
1970
One of of an important series of 10 silk screen mask prints of characters in Macbeth, created by Ron King for his great Circle Press…
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Collection of 28 wood engravings, most signed and inscribed by New York engraver John DePol
DePOL, John.
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Archive of John DePol wood engravings, prospectuses, Christmas cards and keepsakes.
1940-1990
John DePol (1913-2004) was a New York wood engraver. He was inspired by his city and was well known for his work with John Fass…
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RICHARDSON, Sir John.
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Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat Voyage Through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under command of Sir John Franklin
London
1851
First edition of this account of a voyage to the Arctic regions, in search Sir John Franklin's expedition, by Sir John Richardson (1787-1865). Richardson studied…
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One of only 100 special copies.
RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. MILTON, John.
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Areopagitica. A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.
Cambridge
Deighton, Bell & Company
1973
The most widely read of Milton’s prose works, his famous defence of the freedom of the press, written in opposition to the parliamentary order that…
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Proof copy
GILL, Eric.
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Art and a changing civilisation.
London
John Lane and Bodley Head
1934
From The Twentieth Century Library series edited by Krishna Menon.
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One of only 60 copies signed by Gill
GILL, Eric.
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Art and Manufacture.
London
Printed by the Fanfare Press for the New Handworkers’ Gallery
1929
Here are Gill’s thoughts, eloquently put, on what is Art and what it is for. “The artist is a man who makes things - that…
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Inscribed by Gill, probably to Leonard Woolf
GILL, Eric.
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Art and Prudence.
1930
Engraving for ‘Clothes’ by Eric Gill, published by Jonathan Cape in 1931.
Rather charmingly the engraving depicts a sculptor with a strong resemblance to Gill. L.W.…
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6 copper engravings by Eric Gill and signed by the artist
GILL, Eric.
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Art & Love.
Bristol
printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press for Douglas Cleverdon
1927
The 6 full page copper engravings are some of Gill’s most famous including “Adam and Eve in Heaven, or the Public-House in Paradise’, ‘With Ritual…
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WYATT, Leo. SENECA.
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As Long as You Live Keep Learning How to Live.
Newcastle upon Tyne
c.1973-76
Leo Wyatt’s trade was to design and engraved steel dies and copper plates. In his late fifties, challenged by the assertion that famed English wood…
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STONE, Reynolds. (1909-1979)
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At the Edge of the Woods, Ashley Chase.
2009
Previously unpublished, this engraving draws the viewer into a beautiful piece of ancient woodland, assumed by the family to be Ashley Chase in Dorset which…
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Cleverly constructed to form a carousel
DORNY, Bertrand. NOEL, Bernard.
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Au bord des Levres
Nice
Jacques Matarasso
1986
Dorny (1931-2015) was a Parisian artist, painter, engraver and remarkable French book artist. Noël, who died in 2021, was a prize winning French poet and…
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A utopian vision with some gold leaf text
HOYEM, Andrew.
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Aurifodina or, Adventures in the Gold Region, a fantastical ‘49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigley [G.W. Peck].
San Francisco
printed at the press of Andrew Hoyem for the Book Club of California
1974
A reprint of the first novel written by an American to be set in California. Aurifodina is a fantasy utopian country inhabited by a race…
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EHMCKE, F.H. POPP, Dr. J.
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Ausstellung F.H. Ehmcke.
Munich
Bucherstube am Siegestor Horst Stobbe
1917
Includes a dated bibliography of works up to 1917 by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878-1965), the German graphic artist, type designer, illustrator and book designer who…
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STONE, Reynolds. (1909-1979)
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Autumn Trees.
2009
One of Stone’s engravings for Tit for Tat, poems by Walter de la Mare, set to music by Benjamin Britten, published by Faber Music in…
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord, b.1955.
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B. Flavistriga.
2005
Also known as the Dark Blue-Winged Olive, engraved for Mayflies of the Driftless Region, written and hand printed by the artist in 2005.
“’Dry Fly Entomology’…
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[SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. THORP, Joseph.
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B.H. Newdigate Scholar–Printer 1869-1944.
Oxford
Basil Blackwell
1950
With the book label of D.G. Bridson.
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DESMET, Anne RA RE, b. 1964
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Babel Tower in Pieces.
1999
Anne Desmet became very interested in the aspirational qualities of tower-building in ancient Rome and medieval Italy – and that sparked an ongoing interest in…
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FARLEIGH, John. SHAW, [George] Bernard.
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Back to Methuselah [A Metabiological Pentateuch].
New York
Limited Editions Club
1939
With the advertising card for this publication, The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club from July, 1939, Number 119. with the title “If there…